At the closing ceremony of the Venice Biennale, several of our friends, Malkit Shoshan, James Taylor-Frost, Pierre Bélanger, Hamed Bukhamseen and Ali Karimi, used their voices to express the role we play, as architects, in the world we live in and the how we can be effective.

“The so-called refugee crisis across Europe is not a crisis of citizens or citizenship. The real crisis is one of the imperial mind—the State, one of statelessness and borderlessness. It is the nation-state that is at risk. After all, we—the people—are all immigrants.”